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MEMORIAL TO THE FIFTY-FOURTH GENERAL AS- 
SEMBLY OF TENNESSEE REGARDING THE 
COLLECTION OF THE TENNESSEE 
HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



To the Honorable, the Fifty-fourth General Assembly of the State 
of Tennessee: 

The undersigned, your memorialists, respectfully represent 
that they are members of the Tennessee Historical Society, 
and are acting as a committee thereof under instructions to 
petition your honorable bodies to provide a suitable deposi- 
tory and to take and preserve, as a great and valued trust, the 
important archaeological and historical collections which the 
Society has accumulated and now finds itself unable properly 
to care for. 

Organization and Purpose of the Society. 

Your memorialists respectfully represent that the Tennes- 
see Historical Society was originally organized, as a volun- 
tary association, in 1849, ^.nd was active in prosecuting the 
ordinary duties of a State historical society until 1861, under 
the leadership of such men as Nathaniel Cross, A. W. Put- 
nam (the historian of Middle Tennessee), William F. Cooper, 
and others who accumulated a considerable proportion of the 
valuable materials which the Society now possesses. 

In 1874 the Society was reorganized, with J. G. M. Ramsey, 
of Knoxville, one of the most prominent of the State's histo- 
rians, as president ; John M. Lea, as vice president ; and Anson 
Nelson, as secretary — men whose public spirit and State pride 
and interest in and knowledge of history, especially State and 
local, eminently qualified them for their positions. 

In July, 1875, under the general incorporation law of the 
State (bearing date of March 23, 1875, and providing, among 
other things, for the organization of corporations " for the 
support of a historical society"), the Tennessee Historical 
Society was granted a charter of incorporation — " not for in- 
dividual profit," but for the " general welfare of the Society," 
and with the general purpose, specifically expressed, " to col- 
lect, preserve, and perpetuate facts and events connected with 
the history of Tennessee." 

Diligence and Success in Collecting. 

Your memorialists further respectfully represent that the 
Society has ever been diligent in pursuing the purposes of its 
organization. In particular, it has accumulated a large and 
valuable collection of original documents, portraits, and anti- 
quarian and archaeological objects setting forth and illustrat- 



ing the history of the State from aboriginal times to the pres- 
ent. These collections include portraits of the Presidents 
whom the State has furnished to the Union and of most of 
the Governors, from William Blount down; State documents; 
letters and narratives of early pioneers, statesmen, and schol- 
ars ; original contributions to history and biography ; and 
archaeological objects typical of this region, in which are found 
examples of flints and pottery unexcelled by the aboriginal 
remains in any other part of the United States. These items, 
too numerous to mention in detail, are set forth in Exhibits 
" B," " C," and " D," which have been laid before your hon- 
orable bodies and to which your attention is respectfully di- 
rected. 

Richness and Value of the Collection. 

The richness of the collection may be illustrated by the 
mention of rare examples of aboriginal pottery in convention- 
alized animal shapes, of ceremonial flints seventeen inches 
long, and of documents such as the " Proposed Constitution 
of the State of Franklin ; " " The Journals of the Territorial 
Government of the Territory South of the Ohio River under 
Governor William Blount;" "Treaties between the United 
States and Indian Tribes in and adjacent to the State; " " The 
Diary of John Donelson," who led the families of the early 
settlers of Nashville by boat from East Tennessee to their des- 
tination ; " The Early Records of the County of Washington, 
in East Tennessee ; " and " The Cumberland Compact," or 
the original articles of government agreed to by the early set- 
tlers on the Cumberland River. Barely one of these many 
valuable documents exists in duplicate, and very few have ever 
been printed. They exist in these sole and singular forms 
only; they would be irreplaceable if destroyed; and without 
them, important facts of the State's history cannot be writ- 
ten and illustrated. For the members of the Tennessee His- 
torical Society your memorialists know, and for the people 
of the State they believe, that the careless loss of one of them 
would be condemned as gross negligence and the willful de- 
struction or disposal of them as a most unpatriotic act. 

In the true and proper sense they are invaluable, beyond 
valuation. Yet by comparison with similar objects as they 
are bought and sold among collectors and dealers in antiqui- 
ties, it is possible to put a commercial valuation upon them 
with some degree of approximation. By a gentleman, a mem- 
ber of the Society and well acquainted with its collections, 
who is a man of recognized business judgment and who is a 
dealer in such objects, your memorialists are informed that, 
in his judgment, a collector in the United States to-day might 
spend $100,000 and still not accumulate so rich and choice a 
collection as that which the Tennessee Historical Society has 
accumulated and now possesses. 

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Patriotism of Contributors. 

It is needless for your memorialists to assure your honor- 
able bodies that the Tennessee Historical Society has ex- 
pended no such remarkable sum in accumulating its collec- 
tion ; on the contrary, because citizens of the State appreci- 
ated the value to the State of the objects which they had and 
because they had confidence in the patriotism of the Society 
and its purpose to preserve such things in trust for the citi- 
zens of the State in generations to come, they have given them 
to the Society in free and full ownership, voluntarily or, some- 
times, after solicitation. Very rarely indeed have any hold- 
ers insisted upon being paid a purchase price. 

This, as your memorialists believe, will be sufficient to prove 
due diligence on the part of the Society in the work of collec- 
tion. 

Diligence in Caring for the Treasures, 

As to the exercise of due care and foresight for the preser- 
vation of these valuable objects, your memorialists respect- 
fully submit that the Society has always been diligent ; but 
it is, and always has been, financially weak, and now finds 
itself utterly inadequate to the task of caring properly for 
them. 

Soon after the Society was first organized — namely, in 
1857 — the General Assembly of the State, by joint resolution, 
extended to it the use of so much room in the Library as it 
needed. Of this notable recognition and favor on the part of 
the predecessors of your honorable bodies the Society gladly 
availed itself with expressions of appreciation. In that room, 
then, the objects which the Society then had were stored. 
There the collection grew, there it survived the period of the 
Civil War intact, and there it remained until 1886. By that 
time it had increased to very considerable proportions. Nei- 
ther at that time nor since has the State had an historical col- 
lection or museum of itr. own to which the Society's collection 
could be attached under the watchcare of a State custodian. 
Moreover, the State Library was then strong and active and 
growing, and there was no room for the Society. 

So, at this juncture, the Society gladly accepted the offer 
of the Watkins Institute trustees, who were also prominent 
among its members, and removed its collection to the Wat- 
kins Institute Building. In this building the Society has ever 
since stored its collection, and has maintained an historical 
and archaeological museum freely open to the public, being 
materially assisted in so doing by the Watkins Institute trus- 
tees, who, in the expenditure of the income of the funds which 
they hold in trust for public uses, have freely and generously 
placed a large and excellent room at the service of the Society, 
without expense for rent or heat or light. 



The Watkins Institute Building was then new and consid- 
ered of standard construction ; nor were the buildings adja- 
cent so close or put to such dangerous uses as those now- 
standing nearest to it. It is now considered, by reason of 
its construction and surroundings, one of the greatest fire 
risks in the city, and the insurance rates charged upon it and 
its contents are from four to five times as great per thousand 
as those upon an ordinar}- brick dwelling and its contents. 

Inability of the Society to Protect its Collections. 

In view of these changed conditions, the Society has be- 
come very much concerned for the safety of its collections, 
and jealous lest, by leaving them where they may some un- 
fortunate day be irreparably destroyed, it should be judged 
unfaithful to the patriotic public trust it has voluntarily as- 
sumed. 

But your memorialists on behalf of the Tennessee Histor- 
ical Society are compelled by necessity to say, and hereby 
respectfully represent, that the Society is financially incapable 
of giving to its collections the care and protection which they 
ought, without question, to have. Its resources, consisting of 
the dues of members and the income from a small bequest 
made to the Society by the late Mr. I\l. H. Howard, amount 
to less than $300 per annum, and are more than exhausted 
by the necessary current expenses for janitor and custodian 
service; for stationery, postage, and printing; for insurance; 
and in the purchase of one hundred copies of the /Vmerican 
Historical Magazine, which are used to exchange with various 
historical and learned societies for their valuable publications. 
It has not even funds to prosecute vigorously the work of 
collection, much less the means to build or rent a suitable 
fireproof building or room in which to deposit its treasures 
and to maintain a public museum. For nearly twenty years 
it has accepted the generous hospitality of the Watkins In- 
stitute trustees: but, without prejudice to their public-spirited 
action in the circumstances, your memorialists respectfully 
submit that the best these gentlemen have to offer is insuf- 
ficient to meet the present needs of the Society. 

Appeal to the State for Aid. 

Clearly the Tennessee Historical Society, in order still to 
exercise due diligence in the care of its collections, must prose- 
cute a determined search in some direction for outside assist- 
ance. Such being the circumstances, the Society believes, and 
your memorialists are instructed respectfully to represent to 
your honorable bodies, that it is to the State of Tennessee 
that it should first look for aid in caring for these objects 
which it has collected out of regard for the history of the 



State and which are and will continue to be of more historical 
and sentimental interest to the people of this State than to 
any one else. 

Therefore your memorialists, in behalf of the Tennessee 
Historical Society, respectfully memorialize and petition your 
honorable bodies : 

The Collections Offered to the State. 

First, to take and hold the collections which the Society 
now has and hereafter, from time to time, may accumulate ; 
caring for and preserving them as like objects, the property 
of the State, are cared for and preserved ; cataloguing and 
filing them in the same manner as its own archives are cata- 
logued and filed ; exhibiting certain illustrative and instruct- 
ive documents in the collection in a public historical and 
archaeological museum ; and allowing the access of proper 
parties to them under suitable precautions, distinguishing 
theni from its own onl}^ by some characteristic mark which 
shall indicate the relation of the Historical Society to them — 
a relation in which the Society does, and ever will, take great 
pride. 

On its part the Tennessee Historical Society offers freely 
to turn over its collections to the State to hold in trust and 
perpetual deposit as soon as the State shall provide a suitable 
fireproof depository and museum and a State archivist prop- 
erly authorized to receive them and to act as custodian of 
them. 

On its part, further, the Tennessee Historical Society de- 
sires and intends that, should it ever dissolve, its collections 
should become the property of the State in full ownership ; 
and if, in order properly to accomplish this, any legislation 
amendatory of its charter should be thought necessary, it 
stands ready to accept heartily all such changes. 

The Society desires to maintain its organization and activ- 
ity, believing that there will be work for it to do within the 
scope of its purpose as expressed in its charter and desiring 
to be engaged and have a part in the work of promoting 
knowledge of the history of the State of Tennessee and cul- 
tivating pride and interest therein among the present and the 
future generations. 

But your memorialists believe that in asking your honor- 
able bodies to make provision for the acceptance of the col- 
lections of the Tennessee Historical Society in trust on the 
conditions indicated, they are not asking all that, as public- 
spirited citizens, it is at this time their privilege and their 
duty to ask. 

State Department of Archives and History. 

In the second place, therefore, they make bold to suggest 
the propriety and importance of enacting, and they hereby 



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respectfully do memorialize your honorable bodies to enact, 
into law some such measure as House Bill No. 69 (introduced 
by Representative Mellen, of Knox County), providing for 
the creation of a permanent State Department of Archives 
and History, with a State director in charge, after the model 
of the departments now for several years successfully operated 
in the adjacent States of Alabama and Mississippi. 

Such an officer in charge of such a department would be an 
appropriate officer to become the custodian of the collections 
which the Society is asking the State to take care of for it ; 
and, considering the character and value of these collections, 
your memorialists believe that it is not unbecoming in them, 
even though they are petitioners, thus to indicate the dignity 
of position and scope of powers of the officer worthy to be 
intrusted with documents which are of such value to the State. 

Scope of the Director's Activities. 

Such an officer would be in position to carry on the work of 
collecting historical material still in private hands far beyond 
anything which the Historical Society has been able to do 
hitherto. Such an officer would deserve and would be cheer- 
fully given all the assistance in this work which it is at all 
possible for the Historical Society to afford by its cooperation 
with him. 

Hitherto, in default of such a State officer, all that has been 
done in the way of systematic effort to collect the docu- 
mentary and illustrative history of the State and to preserve 
it carefully and properly has been done by the Tennessee His- 
torical Society and other societies with similar historic and 
patriotic purposes and similarly composed of private individ- 
uals with public-spirited pride and interest in such matters. 
The success of the Society in making collections in the past 
has been set forth. At present it is embarrassed in the prose- 
cution of this work by its inability to offer and guarantee safe 
and suitable care of the materials that would, under proper 
conditions, be readily forthcoming. Indeed, your memorial- 
ists are well assured that there are many documents, news- 
paper files, etc., still in private hands which a State officer, 
properly equipped, would be able to procure and to preserve 
from the very many causes of loss to which they are now 
constantly exposed. 

It is well known that the late Lyman C. Draper gathered 
a large amount of choice material relating to the history of 
Tennessee, and especially to those of its citizens who took 
part in the memorable campaign of King's Mountain, and 
carried it with him to Wisconsin. After using it, in default 
of any public depository in this State, he at length deposited 
it there with the Wisconsin Historical Society. These docu- 
ments are still there, with very many more of a similar char- 



acter, well cared for in a building erected at a cost of $600,000 
by the State of Wisconsin for the society. Individuals in this 
State, local historical societies^ and the patriotic societies — 
including the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the Ameri- 
can Revolution, the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Sons 
of the Revolution, the Confederate Veterans, the United Sons 
of the Confederate Veterans, and the Grand Army of the Re- 
public — are all more or less active in this v^ork ; and your me- 
morialists are advised that many — if not, indeed, all — of them 
would cooperate most heartily with a State archivist in his 
efforts to make collections. Moreover, they firmly believe 
that efforts directed by such a central and authorized public 
official would accomplish much more than the uncoordinated 
eiTorts of individuals and societies could accomplish. 

In particular, the ladies' patriotic societies are active, among 
other ways, in locating and marking historic sites. The Con- 
federate Veterans and the Grand Army of the Republic Camps 
in the State are concerned in the effort of the national govern- 
ment to secure and publish a complete roster of the soldiers 
and sailors of the Civil War on both sides. Many of the 
muster rolls are known to exist and to be in private hands ; 
but the individuals who possess and cherish them are unwill- 
ing to part with them even temporarily at the request of indi- 
viduals, though it is believed that a State officer would be able 
to procure them. 

The State Records. 

But if the existing private agencies have failed to do whai 
ought to be done in the. way of collecting material in private 
hands for lack of means and influence, leaving so much that 
must be brought to the attention of your honorable bodies 
with the respectful request that provision be made to take up 
the work by proper State authority, there is still another very 
important field which individuals and quasi-private organiza- 
tions have had no right to enter — namely, the field of the rec- 
ords of the State government and of the local governments 
subject to its control. To these your memorialists beg leave 
to call your attention. 

In each State and local office, as is well known, the more 
recent records must be kept within reach for consultation in 
the transaction of current business. As time passes on and 
the records accumulate, the older ones are moved farther and 
farther back, until they are at length crowded off the shelves 
and out of the vaults into closets, storerooms, and basements, 
where, in too many cases, the officer to whose department they 
belong no longer has direct access to and control over them. 
It is at this point in their existence that, for lack of a proper 
officer to look after them, they become exposed to many and 
active destructive agencies. It is a matter of common report 



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that county officers have ordered all county records to be 
burned to make room for the new. It too frequently happens 
that the records in county courthouses which have been 
crowded out of the vaults have been lost by the burning of the 
building's. The archives of the State, at the Capitol, which 
up to two years ago had been relegated to the basement to 
relieve the pressure for room in the various offices, were found 
to be perishing piece by piece, when their condition was called 
to the attention of the Governor. At different times, in the 
course of visits to the basement by those most familiar with 
the State records, whether to conduct a piece of investigation 
for themselves or to get information for visiting or corre- 
sponding historians from a distance or to look for old docu- 
ments unexpectedly called for by the State's officers, such 
incidents as the following have occurred : The engrossed copy 
of the Constitution of 1796 was rescued from an ash barrel; 
the engrossed copy of the Constitution of 1834 was taken out 
of a barrel of disinfecting sand ; correspondence of Governor 
McMinn's administration relating to the extinguishment of 
Indian titles to land, which had been exposed to water and 
liad been reduced almost to a pulpy state, were rescued from 
the janitor's shovel just as he was on the point of throwing 
tliem away ; the maps and documents relating to the Tennes- 
see-Virginia boundary were found too late for use, when, had 
they been accessible to start with, an examination of them 
would have secured without litigation what, for the lack of 
them, the State was only able to secure after the expenditure 
of $30,000 in conducting a suit before the Supreme Court of 
the United States. 

The Care Now Given to the Tennessee State Records. 

Your memorialists would further support their petition that 
a Department of Archives and History be created, charged 
with the proper care of the State's records, as well as with the 
other duties named, by recalling to your attention what has 
already been done through the personal interest of Governors 
McMillin and l^>azier ; through the interest and foresight of 
the Capitol Commission in fitting up space in the attic, the 
only place where any room at all could be found; through the 
action of the Fifty-third General Assembly in making an 
appropriation for the salary of an archivist for two years ; and 
through the work which this officer has accomplished. The 
old records in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court 
have been removed to the attic and put into the custody of the 
archivist, who has given bonds for their safe custody and who 
lias sorted and arranged them so that any record can be found 
in a moment's time. The documents which were so rapidly 
wasting in the basement under the action of the elements to 
which they were there exposed have been removed to the at- 



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tic, where the archivist is engaged in assorting them. In the 
prosecution of this work he is ahnost daily finding documents 
of much interest and importance, and is already able to ren- 
der much assistance, not only to the student of history, but 
to officers of the State, members of the bar, and citizens whose 
rights are dependent upon information to be found in these 
old documents. What has thus been done is, as your memo- 
rialists believe, but the promising beginning of much that 
may be done. 

Model State Departments of Archives and History. 

Your memorialists would further support their request by 
reference to what the States of Alabama and Mississippi have 
done in recent years through their Departments of Archives 
and History. The documents which have been laid before 
your honorable bodies and the statements made by the archi- 
vists of these States (upon whom your honorable bodies con- 
ferred a great distinction by their invitation to address them 
in joint assembly on Tuesday, January lo, last) render it un- 
necessary to go into details here. They have arranged, filed, and 
catalogued State documents so that they can be quickly found, 
however ancient they may be ; they have accumulated much 
manuscript and printed matter important to the history of 
their States ; they have located and marked historic sites 
within their States ; they have stimulated research through 
the State historical societies, which contain a large number 
of members, many of them graduates of the State University, 
who are steadily engaged in the study of the State history 
and who regularly present between twenty and thirty original 
articles of historical nature at each annual meeting of the 
Historical Society as the result of the year's work. 

The success, and especially the form of organization, of the 
Departments of Archives and History in these States has at- 
tracted wide attention and general commendation. The 
American Historical Association — a body of about 2,500 mem- 
bers, with an annual income of over $7,000 from dues, sup- 
porting liberally its own Historical Review, having an en- 
dowment of $20,000, and maintaining an annual prize of $100 
in American history and a biennial prize of $200 in Euro- 
pean history — at its recent meeting in Chicago, on motion of 
Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard University, passed 
unanimously a resolution indorsing and commending these 
organizations by name ; and the result of the vote on the reso- 
lution, when it was formally announced by the president, was 
received with spontaneous applause. (See Exhibit "J.") 

Your memorialists believe that no more suitable form of 
organization could be found to meet the needs of the situa- 
tion in Tennessee at this time ; and, moved by interest in his- 
torical matters, by public spirit, and by State pride, they beg 
leave respectfully to commend it to the careful consideration 



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of your honorable bodies, trusting that it may be found worthy 
of adoption by the State of Tennessee at this time. How- 
ever, they beg leave further to submit a number of documents 
in Exhibit " K," which will indicate what other States have 
also done. 

The Need for a New State Building. 

Thirdly, the overcrowded condition of every part of the 
Capitol is a matter of public knowledge. The lack of space 
in the Library was reason for the retirement of the Historical 
Society from that room nearly twenty years ago. It certainly 
could not now expect to be received back there. A visit to 
the present archives room in the attic will show at a glance 
the unsuitableness of these quarters for workrooms for those 
who need to consult the documents there, much less to serve 
for the display of an educative exhibit of the documents illus- 
trating the State's history where the public could enjoy ac- 
cess to it. His Excellency, Governor Frazier, in his message 
to your honorable bodies, has called attention, as the late Gov- 
ernor Turney did eight years ago, to the public need for ad- 
ditional room in a separate building to meet the needs of the 
State's officers in the transaction of public business. 

While your memorialists could not with propriety ask your 
honorable bodies to undertake the expenditure of a large sum 
of money for the sake of the Tennessee Historical Society, 
and while they could hardly expect their prayer regarding the 
Society's valuable collections to be granted if there were no 
other place in prospect for storing it than in the already 
greatly overcrowded Capitol, they fully and firmly believe 
that the State would be justified in expending a very consid- 
erable sum of money at this time to provide adequate room 
to meet the needs of the public business in the State offices ; 
and in connection therewith they would most respectfully, 
but most urgently, represent the propriet}^ of providing with 
some liberality and Avith a proper view to the future for such 
things as a museum to display the natural resources of the State 
when they are such as to attract the attention which the 
State's display at the recent World's Fair in St. Louis did at- 
tract, or for the proper preservation and use of a collection 
of such value in itself and to the State as the historical and 
archsT^ological collection of the State Historical Society, or 
for the proper care of its own records and the promotion of 
its own history on a scale and in a manner in accord with the 
recent practice of so many of the States and in proportion to 
the importance which the American people, and Tennesseans 
no less than the others, have always attached to the history 
of their institutions. 

The present Capitol has been in use upwards of fifty years ; 
and it would be truly remarkable if the General Assembly 



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which provided for its erection could have so anticipated the 
growth of the State, or, anticipating it, could have presumed 
so to burden its own generation as to have erected a building 
which, at the end of a half century, would still be ample for 
the transaction of the public business. It did not do so; 
and your memorialists are not aware of any instance. 
State or national, in which such provision for the future 
was successfully accomplished. The document printed here- 
with shows, on a conservative estimate, that the officers occu- 
pying the present building might have four times the room 
they now have and yet not be provided with more than pru- 
dent men of affairs, engaged in public or private business, 
would deem necessary to the prompt and orderly transaction 
of business.* Other documents in the same exhibit setting 
forth the situation in other States seem to show that the esti- 
mate of room needed for the usual officers of State is not 
excessive ; and they show, besides, what provision it is thought 
necessary to make for the newer departments whose impor- 
tance is not necessarily the less because it has only recently 
come to be generally recognized. 

The Present Capitol a Monument to the State. 

Your memorialists are impressed, as they believe the peo- 
ple of the State and strangers generally are impressed, with 
the stable structure, the sightly location, and the peculiarly 
chaste and classic design of the present Capitol. Like the 
Greek temples, after one of the most famous of which this 
building is modeled, it gains a part of its stateliness and 
grandeur from the fact that it stands somewhat isolated and 
apart. All truly great public buildings are monumental in 
character. They are esteemed as perpetual monuments in 
honor of those who are so fortunate as to have participated 
in their erection. Far higher than that, they also typify the 
greatness of the resources and the nobility of the institutions 
of the State which erects them. Your memorialists, there- 
fore, being citizens of Tennessee, taking part in its industry 
and its arts, representing a very worthy body of its citizens 
organized to promote public welfare, and not private profit, 
most respectfully urge your honorable bodies that, in planning 
for the erection of an additional State building, they have 
proper regard for the present one, maintaining and, if possible, 
perfecting the symmetry and proportion of its environment ; 
and your memorialists, in conclusion, beg leave to trust that 
your honorable bodies, in considering plans for a new build- 
ing, will not only provide for a structure with ample room 
and suitable arrangements to meet the anticipated needs of 
the State, but also for one which, by the appropriateness of 
its location and the felicity of itSj.design and the beauty of its 
finish, shall be a worthy monument to those who erect it and 



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an honor to the people of the State whose representatives 

they are. 

All of which your honorable bodies are most respectfully 

memorialized to do. 

In behalf of the Tennessee Historical Society, 

JAMES D. PORTER, President; 
ALBERT V. GOODPASTURE, 
FREDERICK W. MOORE, 
JOSHUA W. CALDWELL, 
E. B. STAHLMAN, 
JOHN BELL KEEBLE, 
W. C. COLLIER, 
JOSEPH E. WASHINGTON, 
ALBERT G. EWING, Jr., 
JOHN H. DeWITT, 
GEORGE F. M ELLEN. 
G. W. MARTIN, 
W. A. COLLIER. 

* Rooms now occupied and aL«o rooms required for the use of 
the State officers of tlie State of Tennessee: 

Rooms Now Occupied. Rooms Needed. 

Governor 3 Governor 3 

Attorney General Attorney General 1 

Supreme Court Consultation Room.. Supreme Court Consultation Koom.. 3 

Adjutant General 1 Adjutant General 1 

Secretary of State 2 Secretary of State 3 

Treasurer 2 Treasurer 2 

Insurance Department Insurance Department 2 

Comptroller 2 Comptroller 4 

Supt. of Public Instruction 1 Supt. of Public Instruction 2 

Supt. of Board of Health 1 Supt. of Board of Health 1 

Commissioner of Agriculture 1 Commissioner of Agriculture 3 

Railroad Commission Railroad Commission 2 

Board of I'ensions Board of Pensious 2 

Land Register Land Register 1 

Funding Board Funding Board 1 

Mine Inspector Mine Inspector 1 

Superintendent of Capitol Superintendent of Capitol 1 

(These six last named at present actually occupy the committee rooms of the 

House of Representatives; but these rooms are required when the Legislatures are 

In session, and, moreover, are small and unsuited for the purposes of these offices.) 

Senate (.'onsultation Rooms Senate ('onsultation Rooms 4 

(The Senate committees, when the Legislatures are in session, are frequently 

obliged to meet in the Library and also at the rooms of memi)ers at the hotel.) 

Court of Chancery Appeals Court of (Chancery Appeals 1 

Archives Archives 5 

(One large room would answer for tl>e aicliives. They are at present stored in 

the roof of the Capitol, in a room made there recently for the purpose.) 

Stati; Board of Medical Examiners. .. State Board of Medical Examiners .. 1 

Board of Law Kxamlners Board cf Law Examiners 1 

Board of Pharmacy Board of Pharmacy 1 

Board of Charities Board of Charities 1 

Inspector of Shops and Factories Inspector of Shops and Factories 1 

(Possibly the Medical. Pharmacy and Dental Boards could be united so as to 
use the same rooms. In that event they would not require as many as stated above.) 
The Library is overcrowded. 

The Court of Chancery Appeals, when the Supremo Court is In session, is obliged 
to sit in the Supreme Court Room in the afternooiu^. 

The Senate has no (romniittee rooms whatsoever, and both the Senate and House 
of Rcpi'cs<'?itatives ought to have committee rooms, provided with fires, in the 
annex ijuilding, where they (^an meet at night to work during tlie session. 

Ther(! is no armory, and in the new building tliere ought to be a floor exclusively 
for an armory. 

The Historical Society has no place. There should by all means be provided 
rooms both elegant and fireproof for that Society. 



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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



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